Police find body of senior just blocks from his assisted living home

BENSALEM, Pa. — Ten days after his disappearance, the body of 90-year-old John Plath was found just a few blocks from the assisted living facility he disappeared from, police said.

“It’s fortunate for the family that he was found, but it’s unfortunate that he passed in the condition that he was in,” said Sgt. Andrew Aninsman of the Bensalem Police Department’s Special Victims Unit.

Plath was reported missing June 13 from the Sierra Oaks Assisted Living Facility, and an extensive search was under way ever since. At approximately 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, police were called to Beaver Street in nearby Hulmeville Borough where they discovered his body in a wooded area behind an auto body shop. Plath suffered from severe dementia, and had poor vision without his glasses, which he left behind at the facility.

Police do not suspect foul play at this point, and are awaiting autopsy results to determine cause of death. “Anything’s a possibility,” Aninsman said. “We did search that area, originally.”